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Outsider music is a genre characterized by its unpolished, unconventional, and often bizarre sound, which defies traditional notions of musicianship and songcraft. Emerging in the 1960s and 1970s, it originated from the fringes of the counterculture movement, embracing a DIY ethos and amateurism. Outsider music frequently features lo-fi production, primitive instrumentation, and unconventional vocal styles, often with a naive or eccentric approach to melody and harmony. This genre's cultural significance lies in its celebration of creative freedom and nonconformity, challenging the commercial music industry's standards and opening doors for experimental and avant-garde artists. Outsider music intersects with psychedelic rock, folk, and avant-garde traditions, yet its raw, unbridled energy and amateur spirit set it apart. Its impact can be seen in later genres like punk, indie, and experimental rock, which borrowed from its anti-establishment ethos and willingness to push boundaries.

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"A Midsummer Musical Journey" - From Mozart & Mendelssohn to Ravel & Tchaikovsky

Anton Bruckner•

Antonín Dvořák•

Carl Maria von Weber•

Charles Ives•

Claude Debussy•

Felix Mendelssohn•

Franz Schubert•

George Gershwin•

Gustav Mahler•

Jean Sibelius•

Johannes Brahms•

Leoš Janáček•

Ludwig van Beethoven•

Maurice Ravel•

Modest Mussorgsky•

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•

Robert Schumann•

Sergei Prokofiev•

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•

Zoltán Kodály

Album - 109 Tracks - Released August 14, 2025

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August 14, 2025

"A Midsummer Musical Journey" - From Mozart & Mendelssohn to Ravel & Tchaikovsky
Kurt Masur•
Anton Bruckner•
Antonín Dvořák•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
George Gershwin•
Gustav Mahler•
Jean Sibelius•
Johannes Brahms•
Leoš Janáček•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Max Bruch•
Max Reger•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Robert Schumann•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Zoltán Kodály
109 tracks
August 10

On a Summer Evening
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alban Berg•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Glazunov•
André Messager•
Anton Webern•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Bliss•
Arthur Honegger•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Loewe•
Carl Nielsen•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward MacDowell•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Eric Coates•
Erich Wolfgang Korngold•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferdinand Hérold•
Francis Poulenc•
Frank Bridge•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Gerald Finzi•
Giacomo Meyerbeer•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Purcell•
Hugo Alfvén
98 tracks
August 10

Music by the Sea
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alexander Scriabin•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Bax•
Arthur Sullivan•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Charles Ives•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Claude Debussy•
Daniel Auber•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Eric Coates•
Erich Wolfgang Korngold•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Florent Schmitt•
Francis Poulenc•
Frank Bridge•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Enescu•
George Frideric Handel•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Purcell•
Hugo Wolf•
Jacques Ibert•
Jacques Offenbach•
Jean Sibelius•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Jean-Marie Leclair•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
John Ireland
85 tracks
June 20

American Composer's Series, 1982-1987 (3cd Preserved Edition)
The Residents
51 tracks
June 20

American Composer's Series 1982-1987
The Residents
51 tracks
June 13

Come On, Mary
Gary Wilson
11 tracks
June 6

Out Of The Missed (Live At Emo's)
The Frogs
22 tracks
May 20

Come On, Mary
Gary Wilson
1 tracks
May 18

A Garden After the Rain - Sounds & Fragrances
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alban Berg•
Albert Roussel•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Alexander Borodin•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Messager•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arnold Bax•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward MacDowell•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Federico Mompou•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Gabriel Fauré•
Gabriel Pierné•
Gaetano Donizetti•
George Frideric Handel•
Giacomo Meyerbeer•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Purcell•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Jehan Alain•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
John Ireland
81 tracks
April 25

White Guys With Guns (single)
The Residents
1 tracks
April 17

An Ode to Nature - Welcome Spring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Campra•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
Gabriel Pierné•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
György Ligeti•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Purcell•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jean Sibelius•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II
81 tracks
March 28

The Crying Clown (Hypnopompic Hallucinatory Assimilation Remix)
The Residents
1 tracks
March 27

It's Only Right and Natural (Fully Extended Edition)
The Frogs
50 tracks
March 3

Little Devils
The Frogs
50 tracks
February 28

Doctor Dark
The Residents
16 tracks
February 14

Ol' Man River (Machine Edit)
The Residents
1 tracks
February 2

Angelic Pageantree
The Frogs
50 tracks
January 24

infinit
Plaisir Douteux
1 tracks
December 17, 2024

Christmas in New York - 2002-12-20 Knitting Factory, New York City NY (Live)
The Frogs
1 tracks
December 1

Afterwhirled
The Frogs
50 tracks
December 1

Mamarazzi
The Frogs
50 tracks
November 1

Ives: Orchestral Works
Charles Ives•
Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra
20 tracks
November 1

Dookietown
The Residents
6 tracks
October 18

The Eye is the First Circle
Charles Ives•
Simone Dinnerstein
4 tracks
October 18

IVES DENK
Charles Ives•
Jeremy Denk
23 tracks
October 8

All Good Children Got To Die
Daniel Johnston
1 tracks
September 27

Duck Sauce [Single]
The Residents
1 tracks
September 26

Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60”: III. The Alcotts
Charles Ives•
Louise Bessette
1 tracks
September 25

Violin Sonata No. 4 “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting”: I. Allegro
Charles Ives•
Jeremy Denk
2 tracks
September 1

Racially Mine
The Frogs
30 tracks
August 23

American Road Trip
Orion Weiss•
Amy Beach•
Charles Ives•
John Adams•
Leonard Bernstein•
Manuel Ponce
21 tracks
August 20

Violin Sonata No. 2: II. In the Barn
Charles Ives•
Jeremy Denk
1 tracks
August 2

Nobody's Nos
The Residents
1 tracks
July 12

Charles Ives: First Sonata for Piano
Charles Ives
5 tracks
July 9

Swanee River Moon
Tiny Tim
1 tracks
July 8

mitsubishi eclipse
Plaisir Douteux
8 tracks
July 7

Well Done
The Frogs
20 tracks
June 28

Demons Dance Alone: 3CD pREServed Edition
The Residents
66 tracks
June 14

Vampire (alternate)
The Residents
1 tracks
June 6

Medium-Well
The Frogs
20 tracks

August 14, 2025

"A Midsummer Musical Journey" - From Mozart & Mendelssohn to Ravel & Tchaikovsky
Kurt Masur•
Anton Bruckner•
Antonín Dvořák•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
George Gershwin•
Gustav Mahler•
Jean Sibelius•
Johannes Brahms•
Leoš Janáček•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Max Bruch•
Max Reger•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Robert Schumann•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Zoltán Kodály
109 tracks
August 10

On a Summer Evening
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alban Berg•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Glazunov•
André Messager•
Anton Webern•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Bliss•
Arthur Honegger•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Loewe•
Carl Nielsen•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward MacDowell•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Eric Coates•
Erich Wolfgang Korngold•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferdinand Hérold•
Francis Poulenc•
Frank Bridge•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Gerald Finzi•
Giacomo Meyerbeer•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Purcell•
Hugo Alfvén
98 tracks
August 10

Music by the Sea
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alexander Scriabin•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Bax•
Arthur Sullivan•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Charles Ives•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Claude Debussy•
Daniel Auber•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Eric Coates•
Erich Wolfgang Korngold•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Florent Schmitt•
Francis Poulenc•
Frank Bridge•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Enescu•
George Frideric Handel•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Purcell•
Hugo Wolf•
Jacques Ibert•
Jacques Offenbach•
Jean Sibelius•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Jean-Marie Leclair•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
John Ireland
85 tracks
June 20

American Composer's Series, 1982-1987 (3cd Preserved Edition)
The Residents
51 tracks
June 20

American Composer's Series 1982-1987
The Residents
51 tracks
June 13

Come On, Mary
Gary Wilson
11 tracks
June 6

Out Of The Missed (Live At Emo's)
The Frogs
22 tracks
May 18

A Garden After the Rain - Sounds & Fragrances
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Alban Berg•
Albert Roussel•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Alexander Borodin•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Messager•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arnold Bax•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward MacDowell•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Federico Mompou•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Gabriel Fauré•
Gabriel Pierné•
Gaetano Donizetti•
George Frideric Handel•
Giacomo Meyerbeer•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
Henry Purcell•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Jehan Alain•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
John Ireland
81 tracks
April 17

An Ode to Nature - Welcome Spring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Campra•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Claude Debussy•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
Gabriel Pierné•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
György Ligeti•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Purcell•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jean Sibelius•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II
81 tracks
March 27

It's Only Right and Natural (Fully Extended Edition)
The Frogs
50 tracks
March 3

Little Devils
The Frogs
50 tracks
February 28

Doctor Dark
The Residents
16 tracks
February 2

Angelic Pageantree
The Frogs
50 tracks
December 1, 2024

Afterwhirled
The Frogs
50 tracks
December 1

Mamarazzi
The Frogs
50 tracks
November 1

Dookietown
The Residents
6 tracks
November 1

Ives: Orchestral Works
Charles Ives•
Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra
20 tracks
October 18

IVES DENK
Charles Ives•
Jeremy Denk
23 tracks
October 18

The Eye is the First Circle
Charles Ives•
Simone Dinnerstein
4 tracks
September 1

Racially Mine
The Frogs
30 tracks

May 20, 2025

Come On, Mary
Gary Wilson
1 tracks
April 25

White Guys With Guns (single)
The Residents
1 tracks
March 28

The Crying Clown (Hypnopompic Hallucinatory Assimilation Remix)
The Residents
1 tracks
February 14

Ol' Man River (Machine Edit)
The Residents
1 tracks
January 24

infinit
Plaisir Douteux
1 tracks
December 17, 2024

Christmas in New York - 2002-12-20 Knitting Factory, New York City NY (Live)
The Frogs
1 tracks
October 8

All Good Children Got To Die
Daniel Johnston
1 tracks
September 27

Duck Sauce [Single]
The Residents
1 tracks
September 26

Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60”: III. The Alcotts
Charles Ives•
Louise Bessette
1 tracks
September 25

Violin Sonata No. 4 “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting”: I. Allegro
Charles Ives•
Jeremy Denk
2 tracks
August 20

Violin Sonata No. 2: II. In the Barn
Charles Ives•
Jeremy Denk
1 tracks
August 2

Nobody's Nos
The Residents
1 tracks
July 9

Swanee River Moon
Tiny Tim
1 tracks
June 14

Vampire (alternate)
The Residents
1 tracks
April 24

Kiss Me Once And I'll Kiss You Twice
Gary Wilson
1 tracks
February 2

Semolina (Live, San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, January 14, 2023)
The Residents
2 tracks
January 12

when we feel insecure
Plaisir Douteux
1 tracks
December 23, 2023

Christmas Minus Mama
The Frogs
1 tracks
November 30

silence
Plaisir Douteux
1 tracks
November 21

unt3
Plaisir Douteux
2 tracks